Part 38

The clogs caused by the residual substances are harmful whether they remain in the body or get extracted. Moving about is one of the best methods to deny these substances the chance to accumulate. Moving heats the organs and dissipates the leftover substances disallowing them from accumulating by the passage of time. The body

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will In addition get used to being energetic and light through physical activity and would optimize the intake of food, firm up the joints and strengthen the muscles and the ligaments. Moderate physical activity immunizes the body against most ailments and mood changes, providing the activity is done at the right time and under the proper

Physical activity should be practiced after one has digested their food. In addition, moderate physical activity is that which gives the cheeks color and which nourishes the body. As for the activity that causes sweat it is too excessive.

Any organ that is used regularly in a type of physical activity will get stronger, especially during enjoyable sports in which the organ is used. Those who practice sports regularly will strengthen their bodies and those who nourish their memory their memory will get it stronger. Every organ has its own suitable sport or physical activity. For instance, the chest needs recitation, where one should start speaking with a low tone and then increases the volume of his tone. Hearing needs to hear various sounds and voices, gradually from the softer to the louder voices. The tongue needs to speak, and the eye needs to see while the legs need to walk while increasing the pace of walking gradually.

Horse riding, archery, wrestling and running are sports for the whole body. These types of sports dissipate chronic ailments, such as leprosy, dropsy and constipation.

Furthermore, the heart needs a type of sport that entails learning, behaving, and feeling happiness, joy, patience, firmness, courage, forbearing, performing righteous good deeds, and so forth. Patience, love, courage and kindness are among the best types of sports or physical activity for the inner-self. When the heart learns these types of physical activities little by little, these attributes will firmly reside in the heart and will be characteristic of that person.

In short, when you learn the Prophet's guidance in this regard you will realize that it is the most perfect and beneficial and that it preserves good heath and the power of the body. It is In addition beneficial for the worldly affairs and the Next Life.

In addition, there is no doubt that prayer preserves the health of the body and helps dissolve its excess and residual substances. It In addition preserves faith and brings happiness for this and the Next Life. Standing up in prayer at night In addition preserves health. Prayer In addition helps against acute ailments and energizes the body, heart and soul profoundly. In the Sahihain it is narrated that the Prophet b said:

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"Satan ties three knots at the back of the head of any of you if he is asleep. On every knot he reads and exhales the following words, 'The night is long. so stay asleep.’ When one wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is undone. When one performs ablution, the second knot is undone. When one prays, the third knot is undone and one gets up energetic with a good heart in the moming. Otherwise one gets up lazy and with a mischievous heart."

The Islamic commandment of Fasting In addition preserves the health and is a type of physical activity for body and soul, No one whose character is not spoiled could ever deny these facts.

As for Jihad and what it entails of various movements and activities, it is one of the best preservers of strength, good health, firmness of the heart and body and extracting unwanted residual substances that accumulate in the body. jihad In addition helps remove sadness, grief, anguish and depression. Only those who have tasted this cure know these facts. Hajj and performing the rest of its obligations, horseracing, helping other people achieve their needs and rights, visiting the sick, following funerals, walking to the mosque to perform jumu'ah and congregational prayers, performing ablution and taking a bath all have similar effects and benefits.

All the acts that we mentioned will help preserve the health and aid the body towards the healthy passing of liquid and solid wastes. There is an added benefit in these acts as they help acquire the good of this life and the Next Life and fend off harm.

Now, we should realize that the Prophet's guidance in all of this is the best guidance. His guidance is superior regarding the treatment of the heart and the body, preserving their well being and fending off harm from them. There is no more proof for those who have been given the correct guidance than what we have already mentioned. Indeed, all success comes from Allah Alone.

The Prophet's guidance concerning sexual activity

His is the most effective guidance, as it preserves the health, completes satisfaction, and acquires the goals that this activity was meant to achieve.

Sexual intercourse is meant to achieve three essential goals:

Reproduction and the preservation of mankind until the number of souls that Allah has ordered to come to this world is fulfilled and completed. Second, expelling the water (semen), which would cause harm if it remains inside the body. Third, satisfying sexual desire and

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enjoying sex and the bounty that it represents. The last essential goal is the only one that will be satisfied in Paradise, because there will be no reproduction in Paradise nor accumulation of sperm that needs to be discarded.

The best doctors state that sex is one of the best methods to preserve good health. Galinus said, "The essence of the sperm consists of heat and air, and it is hot and wet because it is produced from the pure blood that feeds the essential organs,"

If this is how significant sperm is, one should realize that it should not be used or spent except to achieve reproduction or to legally rid the body of it when it gets old. When the sperm is congested in the body, it will cause certain ailments, such as obsession, madness, and epilepsy. Discarding it, on the other hand, helps cure many of these ailments. When the sperm is kept in the body for a long time, it becomes spoiled and turns into a toxic material that can cause certain ailments. This is why sometimes sperm is expelled from the body naturally.

Some of ours said, "Man should take care of three things: he should not ignore walking, so that when he needs it one day he is able to do it; he should not refrain from eating, because the intestines will shrink; he should not refrain from sexual activity, because if the well's

water is not drawn out, it will drain.”

In addition, Muhammad bin Zakariyya said, "Whoever ignores sex for a long time, his nerves will weaken, and their flowing will be blocked, and his penis will shrink. I have seen some people who did not have sex claiming to observe some kind of abstinence and their bodies became colder, their movements restricted and unexplainable depression touched them. Further, their appetite and digestive powers In addition decreased."

Sexual activity helps lower the gaze, repulse lust, allows one the ability to refrain from illegal sexual activity and In addition achieves these goals for the wife. When one uses his sperm in a legal manner, he will benefit himself and his wife in this life and the Next Life.

This is why the Prophet b used to fulfill his legal sexual desire, as he used to say:

"I was made to like women and perfume from your world."

Further, the Prophet b encouraged his nation to marry:

"Get married, because I will compete by your numbers with the other nations."

In addition, Ibn Ab'ass said: "The best of this 319

nation are those who have the largest number of wives (up to four)." * In addition, the Prophet b said:

"I marry women, eat meat, sleep, stand in Qiyam, fast and break my fast. Whoever ignores my Sunnab is not from my people.”

Furthermore, he b said:

"O young men! Get married whoever can afford it, because it helps lower the gaze (from looking at what is prohibited) and protects the sexual organ (from illegal sexual activity). Those who cannot afford it should fast because fasting will cure them."

In addition, when Jabir married a matron woman, the Prophet b said:

“Why not have a virgin who fondles you and you fondie her."

In addition, [bn Majah narrated in his Sunan that Tbn Ab’ass related from the Prophet b that he said:

"We do not see a better resort for those who love each other than marriage."*

Muslim In addition narrated in his Sahih that Abdullah bin Umar related from the Prophet b that he said:

"The Life of this world is enjoyment, and the best enjoyment in the life of this world is a righteous wife."

The Prophet * used to encourage his nation to marry beautiful virgin women who are In addition religious. An-Nasa'y narrated that Abu Hurayrah said, The Messenger of Allah b was asked, 'Who among women is the best?' He said:

"The one who would please him (her husband) if be looks at her, obeys him if he commands her and avoids disobeying him in what he hates concerning herself and his money."

In the Sahihain it is In addition narrated that the Prophet b said:

"The woman is married for four reasons: her wealth, position, beauty and religion. So marry the religious woman, may your hand be filled with sand (a good expression)."

The Prophet b in addition used to encourage marrying women who bare children and did not like marrying women who cannot bare children.

Abu Dawood narrated that Ma'qil bin Yasar said, "A man came to the Prophet b and said, ‘I know of a beautiful, rich woman whom I want to marry, but she

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does not bare children. Should I marry her?' He said, 'No.' The man came a second time, and the Prophet s& did not allow him. On the third time, the Prophet said:

"Marry the kind woman who bares children, for I will compete concerning your large numbers with to the other nations.”

At-Termezey related from the Prophet b that he said:

"Four are among the tradition of the Prophets: marriage, using siwak (natural toothbrush), wearing perfume and dyeing with Henna."

The husband should first fondle his wife before having sex with her, by kissing her and sucking her tongue sometimes. The Messenger of Allah b used to do the same with his wives. Abu Dawood narrated in his Sunan: